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“You know if you walked around the world, your hat would travel thirty-one feet farther than your shoes?”

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David Wong, born on January 10, 1975, is a talented writer known for his unique style and profound thematic explorations. His works have gained widespread recognition among readers. more

“The women all had big minds because they were big animals, but they didn't use them for this reason: unusual ideas could make enemies and the women, if they were going to achieve any sort of comfort and safety, needed all the friends they could get. So, in the interest of survival they trained themselves to be agreeing machines. All their minds had to do was to discover what other people were thinking and then they thought it too.”

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Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not.”

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Author:Albert Einstein

“Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.”

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Book:A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

“The consensus seemed to be that if really large numbers of men were sent to storm the mountain, then enough might survive the rocks to take the citadel. This is essentially the basis of all military thinking.”

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Author:Terry Pratchett

“I want to go on living even after my death! And therefore I am grateful to God for this gift, this possibility of developing myself and of writing, of expressing all that is in me. I can shake off everything if I write; my sorrows disappear; my courage is reborn. But, and that is the great question, will I ever be able to write anything great, will I ever become a journalist or a writer?”

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Author:Anne Frank

“Rumour is information distilled so finely that it can filter through anything. It does not need doors and windows -- sometimes it does not need people. It can exist free and wild, running from ear to ear without ever touching lips.”

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Book:Feet Of Clay: (Discworld Novel 19)

Source: Feet Of Clay: (Discworld Novel 19)

“If there are words and wrongs like knives, whose deep inflicted lacerations never heal - cutting injuries and insults of serrated and poison-dripping edge - so, too, there are consolations of tone too fine for the ear not fondly and for ever to retain their echo: caressing kindnesses - loved, lingered over through a whole life, recalled with unfaded tenderness, and answering the call with undimmed shine, out of that raven cloud foreshadowing Death himself.”

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Book:Villette

Source: Villette

“The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation.”

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Book:Civilization and Its Discontents

Source: Civilization and Its Discontents

“Until the eighteenth century, people believed that biblical paradise, the Garden of Eden, was a real place. It appeared on maps--located, ironically, at the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, in what is now modern-day Iraq.”

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Author:Eric Weiner

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